SAINT MARUTHAS

February 16

From the Prologue

Maruthas was Bishop of Tagrith in Mesopotamia. He was known for his faith and
goodness. Maruthas mitigated the anger of the Persian Emperor Yezdegeherd toward
Christians, begged from him the relics of the four-hundred martyrs in Persia and
founded a town called Martyropolis, where he reposed these holy relics. He ended
his earthly course and took up habitation with the Lord in the year 422 A.D.